Your Private Practice is a Public Accommodation - Lawyers and the ADA-EDU230418
Cost:
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to professional offices, including law offices, in the same way it applies to your local convenience store or shopping mall. This webinar will discuss what the ADA and its Connecticut analog require with respect to physical accessibility, websites and even how you or your staff answer the phone. It will also discuss how our ethical duties to our clients under Rule 1.4 of the Code of Professional Conduct may add an ethical obligation to accommodate the needs of clients with a disability.
Member - $35.00
non-Member - $70.00
Student - $15.00
Program Date; Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Product ID: EDU230418
CLE Credit
CT: 1.0 CLE Credits (.75 General; .25 Ethics)
NY: 1.0 CLE Credits (AOP)
About the Program
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to professional offices, including law offices, in the same way it applies to your local convenience store or shopping mall. This webinar will discuss what the ADA and its Connecticut analog require with respect to physical accessibility, websites and even how you or your staff answer the phone. It will also discuss how our ethical duties to our clients under Rule 1.4 of the Code of Professional Conduct may add an ethical obligation to accommodate the needs of clients with a disability.
Credits
Ethics and Professionalism:0.25, General:0.75
Description
Presented by the CT Bar Institute
You Will Learn
Your basic obligations under the ADA and Conn. Gen. Stat. §46a-63 with respect to the physical accessibility of your law practice, website accessibility and dealing with clients and prospective clients suffering from a disability
How these statutes relate to the ethical obligations every attorney has to clients and prospective clients under Connecticut’s Rules of Professional Conduct
Who Should Purchase
Any attorney with a practice in Connecticut who wants to both obey the law and comply with their ethical obligations.
Speaker
Richard M. Hunt
Hunt Huey PLLC,
Garland, TX
The Connecticut Bar Association/CT Bar Institute is an accredited provider of New York State CLE. This program qualifies for newly admitted and experienced attorneys CLE credits.
Attorneys seeking NY CLE credit who have been admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less must attend the live seminar for skills or ethics credit, a fully interactive videoconference, or simultaneous transmission with synchronous interactivity. Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias CLE credits are only available as non-transitional credits. For further information please see the NYCourts.gov page on CLE: http://ww2.nycourts.gov/attorneys/cle/index.shtml.
Financial hardship information is available upon request.
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